Re: Default of send-mail-function

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>]

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:05:49 +0200, Reiner Steib
<reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> said:  

> One might argue that this is better then relying on
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.  I'd tend to agree.

        It depends.  On most of my machines where I use emacs, and even
 resting those on which I use gnus, mail is always configured in order
 for various system processes to send reports out (like cron).  Most of
 these machines I do not have an http client installed, since my usage
 pattern differs.

        If I may put in my 2 cents as a user, I am not thrilled at what
 I perceive to be a current trend (in Debian, and now in emacs) to
 favour novice users at the expense of loyal old timers, and often the
 response given to me in Debian is that the tyranny of numbers leads to
 setting defaults that are less useful to people not coming into the
 fold from windows. The CUA and tmm discussions recently seem to
 reinforce this perception.

        While I have been using Emacs as my preferred editor since 1987,
 I am not a computer science graduate, nor have I any formal training in
 computers or lisp, so the argument that "expert" user can diagnose and
 fix behaviors they do not like fails to convince me; my reaction to the
 functionp/symbolp change was to remove developmental software I was
 helping to test.

        Sorry for the rant. I'll go back to lurking silently now.

        manoj
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